I will not excuse that WEE little pun, hahahahah!!!! Thank you. They rammed my urethra with an 18f, so I don't bypass around the tubing. I'm just wondering if the fact that my prostate is enlarged to the extent that it's keeping a urine bypass from happening. That if my prostate were of normal size if I would bypass around the tubing? I do have frequent nocturnal erections that swallow up the tubing, sometimes painful when the edge of the "Y" port begins to enter the urethra- and I ain't braggin.' Pre-semen crusties thankfully do not often accumulate. I use a chlorhexadine digluconate antibacterial mist spray that I spritz once on the tubing to maintain some disinfection during my sleep. Bloody hassle explaining this in Spanish to a urologist, but he understood and wrote me an rx for Clorxil Spray. Anything else I wash off in the shower. The discomfort is dryness between the head and tubing. I've tried sterile lubricants, but they dry out and seem to collect lint and other things so I haven't had much luck with those. I did buy EMLA cream, containing benzocaine and lidocaine that numbed the area, but no luck with the same result. This doesn't happen frequently and it goes away with a minor adjustment. The only thing I can say is that this would all change for me if I was bypassing urine around the catheter. They wanted me to take tamsulosin with the catheter, which I'm supposing may cause a bypass begging for UTI. They thought I made a point about needing a drug to help me wee through something that had been put there to help me wee in the first place, without the dizziness and heart palpitations. Still, thank you for your useful information and zeal! Having someone to talk to here helps us all to feel a wee better! HUGS